Category: M&A
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Venture capital, il mercato italiano torna a crescere nel 2024, a +7,5%
EY Venture Capital Barometer: sistema ormai stabile sopra il miliardo di euro, ma ancora limitato nel confronto europeo. Tra i settori più attrattivi, medicale, servizi digitali, tecnologia ed energia di Giovanna Mancini 15 gennaio 2025 Il mercato del Venture Capital in Italia torna a crescere nel 2024 – pur in un contesto internazionale viceversa di…
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Private equity, segnali positivi nel 2025 per raccolta e investimenti
L’Italia è stato il Paese con la maggiore crescita degli investimenti in Europa: record di 56,4 miliardi con 496 operazioni, più del doppio del 2023 Un 2025 all’insegna del moderato ottimismo. E’ quanto sembrano suggerire le analisi degli esperti per l’anno che si è appena aperto per i fondi chiusi. L’allentamento monetario in Europa, migliori…
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Cyber Investors Expect More Mergers in 2025
IPO prospects remain thin this year while industry consolidation is likely to pick up nvestors and bankers don’t expect a surge of stock listings from cybersecurity companies in 2025, but they say the sector is primed for mergers and acquisitions as the largest vendors expand. The cybersecurity industry is in flux, as providers experiment with…
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OpenAI Details Plans for Becoming a For-Profit Company
OpenAI said it would be restructured as a public benefit corporation, and that the nonprofit that controls the organization would receive shares in the new company OpenAI’s leaders have been privately discussing a change for several months but had provided few specifics. In a company blog post published on Friday, OpenAI said it planned to…
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Hunger for Electricity Seen Keeping Renewable-Power Investment Flowing Under Trump
Private-equity managers expect electricity demand to drive the incoming president’s energy policy Some private-equity managers that invest in renewable-power infrastructure hope that soaring demand for electricity in the U.S. will shape President-elect Donald Trump’s energy policies in their favor, as electricity shortages could harm the economy and hamper investment in new factories and data centers.…
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The AI Boom May Be Too Good to Be True
Pending copyright-infringement lawsuits could derail the industry’s economic potential. nvestors rushing to capitalize on artificial intelligence have focused on the technology—the capabilities of new models, the potential of generative tools, and the scale of processing power to sustain it all. What too many ignore is the evolving legal structure surrounding the technology, which will ultimately…
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Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
Timeline of events Elon Musk’s latest legal filing against OpenAI marks his fourth attempt in less than a year to reframe his claims. However, his own words and actions speak for themselves—in 2017, Elon not only wanted, but actually created, a for-profit as OpenAI’s proposed new structure. When he didn’t get majority equity and full…
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Meta Urges California Attorney General to Stop OpenAI From Becoming For-Profit
Mark Zuckerberg’s company is siding with Elon Musk in a fight against the developer of ChatGPT Meta Platforms is urging California’s attorney general to block OpenAI’s planned conversion to a for-profit company, siding with Elon Musk in a battle between Silicon Valley’s most powerful artificial-intelligence players. In a letter to Attorney General Rob Bonta dated…
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Has Sequoia Capital outgrown its business model?
Venture capital’s hardiest perennial gets back to its roots THE FIRST thing that catches your eye when you enter the poshly serene headquarters of Sequoia Capital on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, is a metre-wide cross-section of what appears to be a redwood. On closer inspection it turns out to have been a…
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L’italiana Faro acquisisce il cantiere britannico Sunseeker
Il fondo che fa capo a Giancarlo Galeone, tramite il comparto real economy, rileva il 100% dell’azienda e subentra alla cinese Dalian Wanda Un fondo tricolore rileva il cantiere inglese Sunseeker (già guidato dall’italiano Andrea Frabetti), subentrando alla proprietà cinese. I vertici del comparto real economy di Faro alternative investments hanno annunciato, al boat show…